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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yME_52X20N8

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I first knew smoke

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Before I was to learn of fire.

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I used to revel in the maelstrom,

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In the cascade -

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I used to allow myself the escape

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And would permit myself its drowning haze.

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I first knew of smoke

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Before I did fire.

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I would listen to the warning signs

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And bleed heat in my dreams -

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I'd twist, fall and perspire;

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I'd chart the avalanche 

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Before it would arrive -

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And by the time it did

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I didn't even know better

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Than to offer myself the opportunity

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In averting the sight from my eyes.

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I first knew of smoke

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Before I found fire.

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And when I did, 

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I cared no longer for vapor

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And pondered only on the ember -

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I pondered on the gullibility

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Of sniffing at a smolder

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While providing its bed, a pyre.

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